Cigar-holder and ash-receiver.



N0. 7l7,28|. Patented DEC. 30, I902.

J. C. D. ROSS. CIGAR HOLDER AND ASH RECEIVER.

(Application filed Sept. 16, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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JULIUS C. D. ROSS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ClGAR-HOLDER AND ASH-RECElVER.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,281, dated December 30, 1902.

Application filed September 16, 1902. Serial No. 123,578. (No model.)

To ctZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Jones 0. D. Ross, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Holders and Ash-Receivers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in combined cigar-holders and ash-receivers; and one object that I have in view is the provision of a simple and cheap article adapted to hold a cigar in position for the ashes to drop or fall into a receiver, thus preventing cigar-ashes from dropping on and soiling the clothing of the smoker, or on a desk or table and articles thereon, or on the carpets or fur-' niture of a room.

A further object is to combine the holder and the receiver in a way to secure an ad-" justment of the parts relative to each other, so that a cigar as it burns away maybe brought into position for the ashes to drop into the receiver.

Afurther objectis to combine a mouthpiece or tip with the holder in such a way that the mouthpiece and the holder can be adjusted relatively to each other and the ash-receiver.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the subjoined description, and the novelty will be defined by the annexed claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 5 of the drawings I employ a holder 5, which is made or bent from a single piece of metal into a bowed form. This holder is adapted to be fitted or slipped on one of the fingers of the hand, and said holder supports a cigarclamp, which consists of the jaws or members 6 7. The members are curved and disposed in crossing relation, and said members are made from spring metal or other elastic material. may be made in one piece with the end portions of the holder 5 or the parts may be made in separate pieces and united in any suitable way. The jaws are curved in order to properly fit around a cigar A, and these jaws serve to attach a cigar to the holder by frictional by bending the latter around the wire, and

the arm or arms may be fastened to the holder by securing them in lips or openings 5, which are provided-in the upper ends of the bent holder 5. (See Fig. 2.)

In the construction shown by Fig. 41 employ the holder and the spring-clamp adapted to frictionally engage with the cigar; but the receptacle 8 is pivoted under or supportedat one side of the holder. The means for supporting this receptacle consists of a hanger having the members 10 and 11, and these members are bent to partially embrace the Vessel, thela'tter being pivoted in the free ends of-the hanger, as at 12. The members of the hanger: shown by Fig. 4: may be slidably fitted to the holder 5 in order to adjust the receptacle 8 laterallywith respect to the holder and the spring-clamp, thus allowing the receptacle to occupy a position below the lighted end of the cigar, so that the ashes will drop into the receptacle at all times. The pivotal attachment of the receptacle to the hanger allows the receptacle to assume different positions when the smoker transfers the cigar away from the mouth and assumes an easy and comfortable attitude. The slidable adjustment of the receptacle with rela tion to the holder can also be secured by moving the arm or arms 9 in the lips of the holder. (Shown by Figs. 1, 2, and 5; but in these figures the receiver is rigidly attached to the arm or arms which form the hanger.)

The jaws or members of the clamp In the construction shown by Fig. 3 I employ a mouthpiece 13 and a hanger 14:, the latter being somewhat different in construction from the hangers shown by Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive. The hanger 14 is made of a single piece of metal, which is forked or bifurcated to provide the members 14, adapted to fit slidably in the holder 5 and to have the receptacle 8 supported pivotally or rigidly thereon. The other part of the hanger consists of a single length or member adapted to extend below the inner end of the mouthpiece 13, and said mouthpiece is provided with a depending stem 15, having an enlargement 16, formed with a perforation to receive a single strand of the hanger 14. The enlargement of the stem supports a bindingscrew 17, adapted to impinge the single member of the hanger. This construction contemplates the employment of a hanger which serves to operatively connect the mouthpiece and the receiver with the holder 5, which is provided with the spring-clamp adapted to engage with the cigar, and the holder and hanger may be adjusted with relation to the mouthpiece by sliding said hanger through the perforated part of the stem. The holder may be adjusted from time to time along the cigar as the latter burns away, or the hanger may be slidably adjusted on the holder in order to bring the receiver at all times below the lighted end of the cigar in order that the ashes may be dropped into the receiver.

The device is simple in construction. It can be easily carried in the pocket of the smoker, and it is readily adjusted to cigars of difierent sizes and to bring the'receiver in position for the reception of the ashes as the cigar burns away.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A cigar-holder and ash-receiver having a holder provided with means to engage a cigar, an arm connected to said holder and extending therefrom, and a receiver supported by the arm, said receiver being adjustable toward or from the holder.

2. A cigar-holder and ash-receivercomprising a holder having a spring-clamp, an ashreceiver, and means connecting said receiver with said holder, the receiver being adjustable relatively to said holder.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a cigarholder and ash-receiver, consisting of aholder having a spring-clamp, a hanger slidably fitted to said holder, and a receptacle supported by the hanger.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a cigarholder and ash-receiver, comprising a holder having a clamp, a hanger extending outwardly from said holder, and a receptacle pivotally supported by said hanger.

5. In a cigar-holder and ash-receiver, a bowed holder forming a fingerloop, and clam ping-arms extending upwardly from said holder and adapted to engage with a cigar combined with an arm connected to the holder, and a receiver carried by the arm.

6. The combination of a holder provided with a clam p,a hanger attached to said holder, a mouthpiece connected to the hanger, and a receptacle supported by said hanger at one side of the holder.

7. The combination of a holder provided with a spring-clamp, a hanger slidably connected to the holder, a receptacle supported by the hanger at one side of the holder, and a mouthpiece clamped to said hanger.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULIUS O. D. ROSS.

Witnesses:

FRANK L. KRIETE, JOSEPH B. BURTT. 

